1960 Summer Olympics

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Games of the XVII Olympiad
1960 Summer Olympics logo.png
Host city Rome, Italy
Nations participating 83
Athletes participating 5,338
(4,727 men, 611 women)
Events 150 in 17 sports
Opening ceremony August 25
Closing ceremony September 11
Officially opened by Giovanni Gronchi
President of the Italian Republic
Athlete's Oath Adolfo Consolini
Olympic Torch Giancarlo Peris
Stadium Stadio Olimpico
Opening Ceremony in 1960 Summer Olympics in Stadio Olimpico in Rome, Italy

The 1960 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XVII Olympiad (Italian: Giochi della XVII Olimpiade), was an international multi-sport event held from August 25 to September 11, 1960 in Rome, Italy. Rome had been awarded the organization of the 1908 Summer Olympics, but after the 1906 eruption of Mount Vesuvius, was forced to decline and pass the honors to London.

Host city selection

On June 15, 1955, at the 50th IOC Session in Paris, France, Rome beat out Lausanne, Detroit, Budapest (being the first city of the Eastern Bloc to bid for the Olympic Games), Brussels, Mexico City and Tokyo for the rights to host the Games. Tokyo and Mexico City would eventually host the following 1964 and 1968 Summer Olympics.[1]

Toronto was initially interest in the bidding, but appears to have been dropped during the final bid process.[2] This is the first of five attempts by Toronto from 1960 to 2001.

1960 Summer Olympics bidding results[3]
City Country Round 1 Round 2 Round 3
Rome  Italy 15 26 35
Lausanne   Switzerland 14 21 24
Detroit  United States 6 11 —
Budapest  Hungary 8 1 —
Brussels  Belgium 6 — —
Mexico City  Mexico 6 — —
Tokyo  Japan 4 — —

Highlights

Anticlimaxes

Non-medal winners

Broadcasting

  • CBS paid $394,000 ($3150000 in today's dollars) for the exclusive right to broadcast the Games in the United States. This was the first Summer Olympic games to be telecast in North America. In addition to CBS in the United States, the Olympics were telecast for the first time in Canada (on CBC Television) and in Mexico (through the networks of Telesistema Mexicano). Since television broadcast satellites were still two years into the future, CBS, CBC, and Televissa shot and edited videotapes in Rome, fed the tapes to Paris where they were re-recorded onto other tapes which were then loaded onto jet planes to North America. Planes carrying the tapes landed at Idlewild Airport in New York City, where mobile units fed the tapes to CBS, to Toronto for the CBC, and to Mexico City for Televisa. Despite this arrangement, many daytime events were broadcast in North America, especially on CBS and CBC, the same day they took place.[6]

Venues

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Main article: Venues of the 1960 Summer Olympics

¹ New facilities constructed in preparation for the Olympic Games. ² Existing facilities modified or refurbished in preparation for the Olympic Games.

Games

Participating National Olympic Committees

Participants
Number of athletes per country

A total of 83 nations participated at the Rome Games. Athletes from Morocco, San Marino, Sudan, and Tunisia competed at the Olympic Games for the first time. Athletes from Barbados, Jamaica and Trinidad and Tobago would represent the new (British) West Indies Federation, competing as "Antilles", but this nation would only exist for this single Olympiad. Athletes from East Germany and West Germany would compete as the United Team of Germany from 1956-1964. The number in parentheses indicates the number of participants that each country contributed.

Participating National Olympic Committees
  •  Suriname, also made its first Olympic appearance, but its lone athlete (Wim Esajas) withdrew from competition due to a scheduling error.[7]

Sports

The 1960 Summer Olympic programme featured 150 events in the following 17 sports:

Calendar

All dates are in Central European Time (UTC+1)

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See also: Chronological summary of the 1960 Summer Olympics
OC Opening ceremony ● Event competitions 1 Event finals CC Closing ceremony
August / September 25
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Tue		 31
Wed		 1
Thu		 2
Fri		 3
Sat		 4
Sun		 5
Mon		 6
Tue		 7
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Fri		 10
Sat		 11
Sun		 Events
Ceremonies OC CC
Athletics 2 4 7 3 3 4 4 6 1 34
Basketball ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● 1 1
Boxing ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● 10 10
Canoeing ● ● 7 7
Cycling 2 1 2 1 6
Diving ● 1 1 1 ● ● 1 4
Equestrian ● 1 1 ● ● 2 1 5
Fencing ● 1 ● 1 1 1 ● 1 ● 1 1 1 8
Field hockey ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● 1 ● ● 1
Football ● ● ● ● ● ● 1 1
Gymnastics ● ● ● 2 5 7 14
Modern pentathlon ● ● ● ● ● 2 2
Rowing ● ● ● ● 7 7
Sailing ● ● ● ● ● ● 5 5
Shooting ● 1 1 ● 1 2 1 6
Swimming ● 2 1 2 2 3 2 3 15
Water polo ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● 1 1
Weightlifting 2 2 2 1 7
Wrestling ● ● ● ● 8 ● ● ● ● 8 16
Total event finals 2 4 11 5 14 8 11 15 14 15 12 12 11 15 1 150
Cumulative total 2 6 17 22 36 44 55 70 84 99 111 123 134 149 150
August / September 25
Thu		 26
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Tue		 31
Wed		 1
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Sun		 Events

Medal count

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Main article: 1960 Summer Olympics medal table

These are the top ten nations that won medals at the 1960 Games:[8]

Rank Nation Gold Silver Bronze Total
1  Soviet Union 43 29 31 103
2  United States 34 21 16 71
3  Italy (host nation) 13 10 13 36
4  United Team of Germany 12 19 11 42
5  Australia 8 8 6 22
6  Turkey 7 2 0 9
7  Hungary 6 8 7 21
8  Japan 4 7 7 18
9  Poland 4 6 11 21
10  Czechoslovakia 3 2 3 8

See also

Notes

  1. ↑ IOC Vote History
  2. ↑ http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2015/07/24/toronto-has-made-5-attempts-to-host-the-olympics-could-the-sixth-be-the-winner.html
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References

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External links

Preceded by Summer Olympic Games
Rome
XVII Olympiad (1960)		 Succeeded by
Tokyo
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